Atomic Theory
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teggatz_allen on March 8, 2011
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16 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Rutherford | Discovered a positively charged nucleus. |
| Democritis | Atomos |
| Dalton | Law of Definite Proportions |
| Rutherford | Gold Leaf Experiment |
| Thomson | Discovered Electrons |
| Wave | Modern Day Atomic Model |
| Dalton | Had proof that atoms exist |
| Thomson | Beam consisted of negatively charged particles |
| Rutherford | "It was like a shell hitting a piece of tissue paper and bouncing back!' |
| Democritus | Atoms exist, but no evidence |
| Dalton | Atoms form compounds that have the same amount of each element |
| Bohr | Energy Levels w/ orbiting electrons |
| Thomson | Electrons & Positively Charged Material spread randomly in the atom |
| Wave | Electrons bounce around in their Energy Levels/Shells |
| Thomson | Cathode Ray Tube Experiment |
| Aristotle/Plato | Whose Atomic Theory remained the accepted truth for 2000 years? |
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